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China Coast Guard vessels conducted patrols east of Taiwan this week, China Military Online reported, the first sustained presence on that side of the island rather than the Taiwan Strait to the west. Every prior coast guard patrol cycle, from the encirclement drills after President Lai Ching-te's 2024 inauguration thr…
Read full filing →The People's Liberation Army is preparing contingency plans for a full blockade of Taiwan, according to reporting this week that moves beyond the "quarantine" exercises Beijing ran in 2025. A blockade is not a quarantine with a bigger perimeter. A quarantine inspects; a blockade denies passage entirely, and the legal d…
Read full filing →The distinction Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has drawn for two years, between a blockade and an invasion, collapsed this week. Chinese coast guard cutters and People's Liberation Army aircraft tightened patrol patterns around Taiwan's air and sea approaches, the kind of layered presence that doesn't announce i…
Read full filing →Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense filed its annual review of the Chinese threat on August 31, and the word it chose was "unpredictable," not "aggressive." Unpredictable is not a synonym. Aggressive describes intent; unpredictable describes a command structure that has stopped explaining itself. The review documents…
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